One hundred years since women won the right to vote. One hundred days until the election. One hundred women with one hundred stories.
All young illustrator Dalia Messick wanted was to create a famous comic strip. She tried for the first time after graduating from high school in the mid-1920s, with no luck. She moved to Chicago to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, then took a job designing greeting cards and …
The images are striking. A toddler, his tiny sock caught on barbed wire as he’s passed through a barricade in Albania. A couple holding hands as they walk down a street filled with burning wreckage from a Haitian earthquake. A young refugee from the war in Sierra Leone jubilantly raising …
Most of what I know about poetry can be summed up in this opening line: “There once was a girl from Nantucket …” I’m kidding, of course (kind of). But we’re talking poetry today because American poet Louise Glück was just awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. In announcing …
She lived 95 years, as many years as necessary to complete the work she felt called to do. And the FBI maintained a file on her up until the end. Educator. Newspaper publisher. Civil rights activist. Housing and labor rights advocate. Outspoken critic of police violence. Vice presidential candidate. Charlotta …
As a war correspondent, Dickey Chapelle talked her way onto the front lines of battlefields from WWII to Vietnam and revolutions in places like Hungary, Algeria, Lebanon and Cuba. Unmistakable in her uniform of fatigues, harlequin glasses and pearl earrings, Dickey covered the world’s hotspots. She took photos under fire …
She stood down the Texas Rangers and spoke out for the rights of her Mexican American community. Education, Jovita Idár believed, was the key to equality.
She was the first Black woman to publish a book of poems in America. But it wasn’t until she turned 25 that Phillis Wheatley was allowed to decide her own name.
In 2017, a replica of the ancient Greek Parthenon, widely acknowledged to be the first symbol of democracy, was erected in Kassel, Germany. Built from 100,000 banned books, it was the creation of Argentinian artist Marta Minujin and erected on the site where thousands of banned books were burned by …
When Kate Warne interviewed for a job at the Pinkerton Detective Agency, no one would have predicted that she would save the life of Abraham Lincoln. When Warne arrived for her interview in 1856, it was assumed that she was there for a secretarial position. Instead, she charmed Allan Pinkerton …
Karura Forest sits in the northern corner of Nairobi, Kenya, an oasis of more than 1,000 hectares of native trees, waterfalls and nature trails surrounded by a modern city of more than 3 million people. It’s one of the largest urban forests in the world, and it wouldn’t exist without …